COMMERCIAL.
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Messrs. J. Spant & Co.'s weekly
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TEOM THE PULPIT.
The Sunday Question.
Notes of a sermon by the Bay J. Kirk Maconschis at Unica
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1916.
SEIZED.
New Reign of Terror in the
Our Saviour in Há Lima vai 200 FRENCH NOTABLES charged with breaking the Babbath, but it was only the Rabbinical overlaying of the ancient" institütion which Be of, the day having been lost disregarded, the very spirit' în a mess of senselsos and c01-
Day is a day of grace, and its right observance depends alto- gether upon a willing spirit in the beart. The older Sabbath certainly had a gracious purpose,
December 7, staten: The Church on Sunday morning plicated regulations. The Lord' tinued tightnem in the money markets is mostly responsible for Text: Rev. 1/10, "I was in the the present inactivity in the cotton spirit on the Lord's Day." -trade; pricea ruling more or les
the same se last week and with Cimarosly any busivom transpiring.
steady.
plates, Y166 132 in big iron, sle., and decreases of 1209,322 in beans and T169,183 in bean oskes. The export trade shows
an increase of 7725,287 in coal and a decrease of 1723,287 in
cotton yarn
·
The early Christian Church had to establish its own ordinances time might show to be
Invaded Provinces,
and
The reasons for this cruel
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Paris, Nov. 12-The German Banks authorities have recently ordersi Tone of the market, quist to expedient. The Jewish Sabbath, but it was enfa,oed-outwardly reprisal-campe of 200 of the most North Chinas
the,acrest and imprisonment in Cantons therefore, was not formally set for the common good.
prominent men and women re- Unions aside nor hurriedly abandoned Foreign Trade of Nagasaki.
Christendom, as we know it, maining in the towns of Lille, Yangtzes to die The foreign trade returns of but allowed
out is a "mixed multitude," and its Roabair, Tourcoing, Dousi, Nagasaki for the part eleven slope with the ordinances of Sanday is correspondingly some Valenciennes,
FIRE INSURANCES." Cambrai, mbathe show importa valued at Jadaism in general. But the re-thing between the legal Sabbath smaller places in the invaded China Fires n 713,299,828 and exports at Y8.ligious sad humanitarian ground and the voluntary Lord's Day.
H. K. Fires provinces. 965,102; increases of T6,017,284 on which the reel-day is based,
It is partly safeguarded by the and 74,767,790, respectively, on are permanent, so, as Christians laws of Christian countries, and Delory, of Lille, the president of Douglases
They include oss deputy, M. the figures for the corresponding orased to oberve the raceday for pars y social and physical the Courte, the Peblic Prosecutor, Indos (Def.) period of last year, the Nagasak of the week, they replaced it by reasons the wisdom of such four councillors, the sub-prefect Indos (Pref.) Pres notes. The import trade the first, commemorating the legislation is generally conceded; and investigating magistrate of Shells abons increases of Y585,541 in Lord's resurrection, and, as the nobody wants to have the law Dorsi, and number of priests, Ferries raw cotton, Y449,798 in iron Jews had seen in the seventh day courts actories and warehouses doctors, and lawyers.
type of completion of the Cres in fol. swing seven days a week. tion, Christians saw is the first Bat there is a large aphere which mesaure are not known.
type of its beginning.
law cannot cover and should not It was the day of light, when order began to arise out of chaos, be invoked. It is within that
Kallans “The Germans are continuing Langiats even an God had shined in men's region that differences of judg- heart to give the light of the ment arise, and there is need for their terrorism in the invaded Rauba
matual charity and toleration. knowledge of His glory in the face.
districte. They have just carried Tronohs Hankow Piece Goods Trade.
The old-fashioned" Sunday off from the North of France to Urais of Jesus Christ.” The weekly circular of the
was andonbtedly too often a day the oamp at Holsminden 200 per- The first day of the week thus of gloom. Many of us remember sons, many of them of note, in- Hankow British Chamber of Com-
DOCKS, WHARVES. merde for December & commenta became
"the Lord's day" that, but few of us are to hear it aluding 55 women. One of them H. K. Wharves
GODOWNS, &C. as follows on the import piece saturally and inevitably among caricatured, as it very often is, is the mother of nine children."
$8014 goode market:
Christians, This market the
and. Later particularly when it is styled the
Kowloon Docks I... shown a slight improvement, but the Church found
In the Cologne Gasetis (adda Shai Docks the "Sootch Sunday," which it never Reuter's correspondent at Am-
1, there has been but little business difficulty in adopting for it the was exclusively, by any means sterdam) appears an article on the
LANDS, HOTELS passing in view of the tightness designation of Sunday, in sooord- Strict those Sundays were, and subject of Germany's deportation Centrals
AND BUILDINGS. - of money. Clearspose, however, saos with the astrological week they had a good many rather dull of Belgian workmen. bave continued very fair in the popular in Roms, which placed hours for us young folk. Still,
H. K. Hotels have every hour of the work under the when I look back on those day "have no connection with the war. H'phreys Est. circumstancer. Whites
"Theme memeures," it says, Land Invest. advanoed from 1 to 14 mtoe per control of one or other of the and try to estimate their real piece; dyed goods Icandaroon for seven planets as these were known effect, I am unable to say with They are solely dictated by con- Kloon Lands yard and blacka and fancies about to the ancients, Sun, Venus, any conviction that it would have siderations of a mans police sd. Shai Lands 1 candareen per yard. Greyshave Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, been well had they been greatly ministration, which could declined 1.1i mace per piece, of Mars. From the first, the Christian diferent. Well do I recollect longer allow thousands of able COTTON MILLS. which Japanese are reported to communities were in the habit of those Scottish Sabbaths, and the bodied workmen to go to rain by Ewos have effected some cheap sales,
sasembling on Sundays for payer little dirk at the top of the remaining deliberately unemploy. Kung Yiks Japan's Superfluous Specie.
tesohing, breeking of bread and bras where my father ministered ed and spending their time za-S'hai Cottons The fact that a list has been the general purposes of fellowship. in bleak Aberdeenshire. Eleven profitably in public-houses." Yangtszepoos IL opened here in Japan for sub Gradually, as the faith spread, o'clock drew near, and the old The journal says that Germany's scriptions to the Y100,000,000 the day came to be a general caretaker, who could remember sotion is the result of "uas Borneos British Loan is a matter for con- festival, and, from the time of the heads and particulars of the humanitarianism," which would China Light & P, b. gratulation, saya Mr. Nakoshaji. Constantine, to be set apart by longest sermon, and to whom a justify even the use of coercion Providents the Minister of Agriculture and legal sanction as a dier non sermon without heads would have in the circumstances. Commerce, For, the Minister con- Work, except agricultural, was seemed an odd a comet without tinues, the European War has forbidden, travelling restricted, as a tail, appeared and opened the csured unparalleled activity is also assemblies for games or sporta. door Japan's foreign trade, with the
The original Lord's Day, sacred
to coerce their consciences, but The "acutar" and the smith |I will venture a few suggestions result that specis holdings both ato believers in memory of Christ, daundered up from the near-by as to how & Christian Sunday home and abroad have tremen-thus came to be the modern Bun hamlet, crofters made their ways may be wisely spent. For one dously itaroused. The annual day, a general rest, with more ar inflow of spcaie in put at Y500, one of the character of the Jewish cross the fields, and from far and thing, people should go to 000,000 on an average. Suppose Sabbath impressed on it in ear drove in the farmers gige and Cherch. I shall be expected to dogoarte over rough roads, carry. say that, so shall say it briefly. that out of this eum, about T100 different times and places. €00,000 is invested in various The origin of the Jewish ing father and mothers and hand-I know as well as anybody that andertakings; there still remains Sabbath itself in involved in much some overloade of sturdy lads oing to Chorob is not everything, Y400,000,000. This has naturally obscurity. It may have been won
and saucy lames, scattered, meny that some who do not go may be lowered the rate of interest on pepted with lunar festivals of of them, over the whole face of better than some others who the open market and raised in primitire times, but that it far the world this day, bat, wherever do, sud all the other stock ex- But if you believe in God turn the prices of commodities to from certain, and at any rate by they are, living out the habits of cases. amerione extent. The Minister Old Testament times the Sabbaths and probity learnt in so small sion of your belief-and you know | salf-relianos and perseveranos you should make public confes- believes that the dotation of the and "new moons" were quite measure from the discipline and it. And if you are any sort of British loan will go far to tighten distinct. the tone of the money market and
A seven-day week does not Sabbath which every thirsty weaken the general Christian self-control of that very Scottish Christian, you bave no right to restore the general market to divide the lunar month evenly, normal conditions.
and a seventh-day festival could tourist, vexed broanse he finds testimony by absenting yourself not for a single your keep step with the public touses closed to him, from its public manifestation, Philippine.Kapok. There is a great-fatare before the quarters of the moon.
anathematisse, We do not sik we have any real wish --the 'nottón infantry in the Philip Mother love, as it has been to have the old customs back just to make Sunday the Lord's Day
Cablenews known for ages, is a pines (says the
thing
but we'll not we shall ordinarily spend part of T/T as they were;
2/44 American). In order to assist the infinitely ennobled beyond the anathematize them. And when it where our brethren mest to
2/4 13/16 people to avail themselves of a bara primitive instinct of racial we hear them eneered at, we may seek His Face.
- 2/474 50 die................... 2/5 wonderful opportunity to make preservation in which it is partly ask for proof that they did not After that may I săvise, sud
would be as produce better results on homan vary strongly, thas the day be T/T Shanghai.......Nom.
4 0/8.........----| cotton culture a national one, the routed, and it
2/5 1/16 Director of the Burean of Agrioul- ansible to make light of that character than the average modern spent quicily ?
Not glamy T/T Singapore 102 and ture, has brought about the purest of all human affections Sunday.
dumbly, but without TT Japan. ........................... installation in Cavite of_a_kapot because of
Dofortunately, it seems im-excitement. I think organi-ed T/T India...................... 176 its lowly origia cleaning machine of modern im se to belittle the noble institution poesible to keep from swinging to smasements should be avoid. Demand, India ...... 177 proved type. A thorough test is of the Sabbath because it may extremes. Bunday should not be aed-tournaments, regattas, large T/T San Francis-1 co & New York) to be made of Philippine cotton once have had affinities with day of gloom, so we move it toward partier, expeditions which involve and, if it can be shown that it superstitious early times, But, mere triviality. Determined not longish journeys and protracted TE Java 137 1⁄2 ranks with the Java product and however the seven-day week to be sanctimonious, we let go all absence from the home. Such T/T Marks Nom,
affairs
T/T Francs.uña. invalvo can be produced at no greater originated, its convenience is sanctity.
3.33 Demand, Paris...... 3.39 4 cout, the United States Navy is in | universally acknowledged, and Perenading ourselves that this work and preparation, their a position to make use of over a the setting side of one day for or the other is "not wrong", we
ellect on the community is not
BUYING. hundred tons a year. Kapck is rest and worship is shown by ex-assume that it is quite right, at good, and their general atmos- 4 mix. LIC used extensively in the manu parienos to be reasonable and all times and in say quantity, here is much more likely to 4 m/▲ D/P. facture of life belie, cushions, life expedient in the highest degree. There is a class of mind which of the day than to promote 30 d/s Bydany &
*** defeat the bigher purposes 6 m/s. L/C The interlude is a necessity for works that way, and it is not booys, and for other articles
them. Sonday – in that are expected to floss for a maxi and beaut if they are not to ancommon. People get an admis- considerable time after immers wear out too soon and to fallion from some Christian teacher of days to be in your own home, 30 địa San Franc nox. The Barese of Agrisaltare short of their best in every way, that it is not a sin, say, to play and to throw these open, quietly 4 m/s. Marks
isco New York in con£dent that the Filipino More work is done in six days a round of golf, to sail & launch informally, to others who for the product, if properly cared for and than in seven, done better, and in the harbour, la puertain their own, and to whom & Demand, Germany..
time being are without homes of] 5 min. Francs aleaned, can easily compete with in a better spirit, as has lately friend or two, and on that the Java kapok.
been proved in regard to mani- slender basis they will justify taste of home life might make Demand, New York, 57116 tions work at Home, which, for habitual negipot of everything but all the difference. In your homes TT Bombay all ite desperate urgency, has had amusing themselves of a Bonday. let there be freedom and Demand, Bombay... 177. to be intermilied on Sundays. They grasp at the truism, which happiness in any reasonable way, TIT Oaloutta......... The Sabbath was made for man, nobody disputes, that going to only just remember that it is the The Stamping of Eg: ptian Colas and placed muder the strongest Church is not Christianity, but Lord's Day and that a number sarations in order that we may they do not think out the real of things perfectly harmless in In regard to the proposed ba kept from overdriving our question, which is
themselves Are Bosroely
On Haiphong phim 243 prom whother
On Saigon ........ 34% prém. change in the stamping of solves or oilers, as if life had no Christian life сад possibly keeping.
The reverend gentleman then Bovereign
8,25 · Nom. On Bangkok. 664 Egyption usinage the British object other than tass we should thrive if we habitasily formke Government has expressed the work and eat and hay and noll the membling of ourselves to-
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Demand 30 dis.
little no
the best
natural to substitu'e the mono- The Sabbath of the Jow was](has chere may ko more time to}}'s hubner gram of Bultzo Hamsin of Egypt also baasd in particular upon his do nothing or to spend in our For the monogram of the Sultan | covenant relations with a revealed pleasures. We cannot at a of Turkey. The Government simo God, from whom he derived all Christian Lord's day by means of #ggests the employment of the and to whom he owed duties in a set of rules se to what we may you bave lost your appetite English language aids by side whose discharge, man's life fallu do and what we must not,
one of the big variety or with the Arabio language on the into its right proportion and pse I cannot lay downraise for other! DHA CAFF is sure to tempt dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- 'people's lives, and do not pessume you.
Me:bourne...
111
57
2/5 9/16 2/5 11/16 2/5 13/16
2/5 13/16-
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3.50
4 min. Franos 3:45
Demand, Calcutta..: 177 Demand, Manila... 114 Demand, Singapore. 102
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